The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 53

So the lazy girl came home all covered with pitch, and when the old hen on the top of the wall saw her, it called out:

Who acts: lazy girl, old hen · What happens: come, cover, see, call out · To what, where: girl, pitch

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lazy girl, old hen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 covered	advmod
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 pitch	case
10	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 saw	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hen	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hen	amod
16	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 top	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 top	det
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hen	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 top	nmod
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	nsubj:pass
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 saw	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 called	compound:prt
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the lazy girl		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	participle	the lazy girl not said here		with pitch; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pitch=Theme
3	see	past	the old hen on the top of the wall	girl		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		pitch		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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